6- SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2016 - THE CAROLINA TIMES
Atlanta in the 70s: photo exhibit shows a strange old world
By Bo Emerson
The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution
ATLANTA (AP) - At
lanta in the 1970s was way
stranger than we remem
ber.
The Old South pushed
up against a New Age; hip
pies gathered in Piedmont
Park and gay pride march
ers ventured to Peachtree
Street. A political revolu
tion brought African
Americans into power
while an economic sea
change brought money to
the whole region.
Boyd Lewis, once de
scribed as the “white boy
with the black press,”
stayed busy documenting
the upstart town, as a re
porter and photographer
with the Atlanta Voice and
the Atlanta Inquirer and as
an editor, reporter, anchor
and producer with public
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Lewis recently donated
15,000 images to the Atlan
ta History Center, adding
to a gift he made ill 1985,
bringing the total to 25,000
images, plus some audio
tapes and other items. The
fascinating exhibit, “Flash
back: Atlanta in the 70s,
The Photography of Boyd
Lewis,” currently show
ing at the Margaret Mitch
ell House in Midtown, is
drawn from this archive.
The show includes 60
images and three videos
and will be on display until
next January.
Among the classic im
ages that Lewis captured:
.A marcelled Maynard
Jackson at his elaborate in
augural, the Atlanta Sym
phony Orchestra perform
ing behind him.
.Krishna Consciousness
devotees, clad in dhotis and
high-top Converse sneak
ers, joyfully banging their
two-headed drums in Pied
mont Park.
.A fabulous gay pride
cohort, awash in feathers
and parasols, waving from
the windows, roof, bed
and hood of a blue pickup
truck.
In 1997 Boyd moved to
Los Angeles to teach high
school and middle school.
Now retired, Lewis said he
found teaching as reward
ing as journalism. “You’d
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Presidential
Strife
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“When you are whipping
people up, it contributes to an at
mosphere that leads to the poten
tial of political violence. Words
matter,” he said.
Trump says he does not en
courage violence; the fault, he
says, lies with the demonstrators.
But the political rhetoric is feed
ing into misplaced myths about
the contributions of minorities
to this society, said Sol Trujillo,
founder and chair of the Latino
Donor Collaborative.
“We’re a country of breaking
barriers, not erecting barriers,”
he said.
Ken Burns, an Academy
Award-winning documentary
filmmaker, said some ofTrump’s
comments and actions - like for
getting that he had repudiated a
Ku Klux Klan leader - “that is
the wink-wink dog whistle that
signals to our unreconstructed
brothers.” ,
“We’d like to believe in our
better selves but in point of
fact, a lot of us aren’t that,” said
Burns, who explored racial ten
sions in his documentary, “Jack
ie Robinson.”
No one has died yet this cam
paign season. However, violence
- including some that has been
fatal -.has often been suffered by
minorities participating in politi
cal processes and social protest
ing.
For example, an estimated
150 blacks and three whites
were killed after white Louisi-
anans attempted to take over a
courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana
on Easter Sunday after losing a
statewide election to reconstruc
tionists in 1872, which became
known as the Colfax Massa
cre. And Rev. George Lee was
gunned down in Belzoni, Mis
sissippi in May 7, 1954 for his
attempts to get blacks to vote. In
August 1955, World War II veter
an Lamar Smith was shot on the
courthouse lawn in Brookhaven,
Mississippi, for urging blacks to
vote.
Lee had turned down police
protection because it was offered
only on the condition he stopped
his voter registration efforts.
Associated Press writer Rus
sell Contreras in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, contributed to this
report.
Attorney General
Loretta Lynch:
Civil
Rights Key to Suit
Against LGBT
Law
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“If you were born a man,
that’s who you are. If you were
were better photographers than I, more evocative audio
artists and God knows, more story-telling writers,” Lewis
said recently. “But I can’t think of anyone else who did
it all.”
A.J. Howard Clement, III
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Elected to Durham City Council for four year term November 1985;
subsequently re-elected in
11/89, 11/93, 11/97, 11/01 and 11/05 - Ward 2
Chairman, Public Works Committee, 1989-1997
Chairman, Transportation Advisory Council for Durham City-
County, Chapel Hill, and Orange
County areas, 1984-1985
Appointed August 3, 1977 by Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr., as
Representative to the North Carolina General Assembly and
served until November 1978
Member, Durham County Democratic Executive Committee;
Secretary, 1968-72; Chairman,
1974-77; Second Vice Chairman, 1981-83 •
Member, State Democratic Executive Committee, 1968-78 and
1981-83
Member, Rules. Committee, 1972 Democratic National Convention
- Miami Beach, Florida
President, Young Democratic Club, Durham County, 1969-71
Appointed by Gov. Robert W. Scott to the State Democratic
Reorganization Commission, 1968-69
Educational Affiliations
City Council Liaison, Closing the Achievement Gap Committee
(2000-Present)
HOSTS Mentor, Fayetteville Street Elementary School
(1995-Present)
Member, Advisory Committee, Holloway Street School Academic
Center
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• President Barack Obama’s po-
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Educational Affiliations (continued)
Member, Hillside High School Academic Advisory Boards - Law
and Government; Business and Finance
Member, Model School Task Force, Hillside High School
Member, Blue Ribbon Study Commission, Durham High School
Board Member and First Chairman, Durham Mathematics
Council (affiliated with the North Carolina School of Science and
Mathematics), 1984-1990
Charter Member, Research Triangle Chapter of the Howard
University Alumni Association; Vice President, National Alumni
Association, 1976-1978
Chairman, Business Advisory Committee, Hillside High School,
1990-1994
Participant, Management Game, Duke University Graduate School
of Business Administration, 1976-83
Chairman, Durham City Schools’ Committee to Study
Characteristics of the Junior High/Middle School Concepts,
1981-82
PTA President: Lakewood Elementary School, 1970-71; Fayetteville
Street Elementary School, 1972-75; Shepard Middle
School, 1975-77; Hillside High School, 1977-81
Civic Affiliations
Member, Board of Directors, Durham Chapter, American Red Cross
(2007 - Present)
Member, Board of Directors, Durham Chapter, Operation
Breakthrough (2006 - Present)
Member, Board of Directors, Durham Chapter, Habitat for
Humanity (2006- Present)
Member, Board of Directors, Durham Public Education Network
(1997-Present)
Co-Chairman, Crime Cabinet
Member, Education Cabinet, Durham Chamber of Commerce
Co-Convenor, Local Organizing Committee, Million Man March,
1995
Member, Board of Directors, Durham-Chapel Hill Affiliate,
American Heart Association
and its Durham Cultural Diversity Task Force (1996-1998)
Member, Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Durham Health
Partners (1998-2002)
Co-Founder, Downtown Durham, Inc., 1993
Mentor, Rites of Passage, 1993-1999
Member, Board of Directors, Durham Business and Professional
Chain
Appointed to the Board of Directors Durham Convention and
Visitors Bureau, 1994-1997
Member, Board of Directors, Eagle Village Community
Development Corp., Vice President (1996-2001)
Member, Advisory Board, Teen Court
READS Advisory Committee, Durham Housing Authority
Member, Board of Trustees, Central Children’s Home of North
Carolina (Vice Chairman 9/00-9/01)
Member, James E. Shepard Sertoma Club, (9/87-Present)
Member, Board of Managers, Centura National Bank, (Chairman,
1991-1993)
Member, Durham Rotary Club, 1981 (President 7/00-7/01)
Director, North Carolina Zoological Society, 1986-1988
Member, WTVD Minority Affairs Advisory Committee,
1972-Present
Civic Affiliations (continued)
Life Member, NAACP
Member, Executive Committee, Occoneechee Council, Boy Scouts
of America
Chairman, Urban Emphasis Committee, Occoneechee Council
(Durham)
Chairman, Mawat District (Durham), Boy Scouts of America, 1980-
82
Chairman, Black Solidarity Committee for Community
Improvement, 1968-69
Member, Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce - Local
Government Committee; Education
Committee
First Vice-Chairman, Durham City-County Charter Commission,
1971-75
Member, Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People
(1961-Present; Chairman, Education Committee, 1972-77)
Fraternal Affiliations
Life Member, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Initiated 12/52, Beta
Chapter Howard
University) currently affiliated with Beta Theta Lambda Chapter,
Durham,NC
Member, A. S. Hunter Lodge #825, Prince Hall Masons
Member, Alpha Tau Boule, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (Initiated 7/85,
Durham, NC)